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Senate Armed Services Committee
The venerable soldier, statesman, and Virginian, General George C. Marshall once noted, "In a democracy such as ours, military policy is dependent on public opinion." The Senate Committee on Armed Services is one of our nation's important congressional forums for ensuring that national security objectives and policy are guided by the priorities, concerns, and interests of the American people.
I am privileged to have been a member of the Armed Services Committee every year since 1978, and, to have chaired the Committee for over six years. Currently, 25 Senators are members of the Committee, and, as the senior Republican on the panel, and its past Chairman, I am now the Committee's second-ranking Republican member. During my 29 years of service, the committee has addressed the most fundamental security issues facing the nation, including the revitalization of the armed forces under President Reagan; the restructuring of the military following our success in the Cold War; the review and implementation of the lessons learned from recent military operations; and the countering of emerging threats from foreign nations and terrorist groups.
As chairman of the Armed Services Committee during the 106th, part of the 107th, and the 108th and 109th Congress, I was pleased that the committee was able provide critical support to the military services, the men and women in uniform, their dependents and military retirees. In 1999, the committee provided the first real increase in spending for national security priorities in over a decade, including the first major increase in compensation for military personnel in 16 years. The following year, the committee authorized extensive improvements in healthcare for active duty service members, their dependents and military retirees. Most recently, the committee authorized special compensation for certain combat-wounded retirees. As a past chairman of the Committee, I am convinced that it is important that the men and women of the armed forces not only have better tools and equipment to do their jobs, but also an enhanced quality of life for them and their families.
When considering the many issues before the committee, I do so with an appreciation of the long and distinguished history of support shared by all Virginians for our armed forces. Today, more than 200,000 members of the military and Defense Department agencies serve in over ninety installations, bases, and facilities throughout the Commonwealth. In addition to the senior civilian and military leadership located at the Pentagon in Arlington, other noteworthy commands include the 29th Infantry Division in Fairfax County, the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet in Norfolk, the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing in Hampton, the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, and the Army Ammunition Plant in Radford. I am fortunate that I am able to communicate the continuing pride of all Virginians for our armed forces as a member of the committee.
Today, our nation faces new threats and challenges. Because of my membership on the Armed Services Committee, my admiration and respect for our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines has grown unabated over the years. With every confidence, I can report to my fellow Virginians and Americans that our military is indeed, "manned and ready."
Website: http://www.senate.gov/~armed_services/


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Home News	Ugwuanyi appoints Jay Jay Okocha, ex-NBC boss, others as reform c'ttee members
written by Our Reporter July 8, 2019
Former Super Eagles Captain, Austin 'Jay Jay' Okocha and former Director-General of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Mr. Emeka Mbah are among professionals, technocrats and experts, inaugurated on Monday by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State as members of the last batch of the sectoral ad-hoc committees to review various sectors of the state government and design roadmaps for optimized service delivery and advancement of good governance in the state.
It would be recalled that Gov. Ugwuanyi recently inaugurated the first batch of seven ad-hoc committees in the sectors of education; health; public service reform; security; justice; water and chieftaincy/ community matters.
Inaugurating the remaining five sectoral committees, namely agriculture and rural development; finance, review of Internally Generated Revenue and international development partners' funding; lands, housing and transport; sustainable environmental and urban management; and youths and sports development, Gov. Ugwuanyi listed 'Jay Jay' Okocha as the technical adviser of youths and sports committee and Mr. Mbah as the Chairman.
Presenting the committees' terms of reference, the governor, who expressed the desire of his administration to perform better in its IGR growth and other economic indices to improve the socio-economic wellbeing of the people of Enugu State, stated that the finance committee shall assist in designing "a roadmap to further boost positive returns on our assets, increase our IGR and optimize outcomes of development partner support".
He added that the strategy was also in keeping with President Muhammadu Buhari's call on state governors to prioritize their IGR drive for the wellbeing of their people, stating that "the economic viability of states in Nigeria is benchmarked on the parity between their Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and their share of federal account allocations".
According to him, "although Enugu State is currently ranked as the 7th most economically viable state in Nigeria, we seek to perform better for the sake of improving the lives of our people and fulfilling our electoral promises".
On agriculture and rural development, Gov. Ugwuanyi, who noted that Enugu is predominantly a rural and agrarian state, with a substantial proportion of its working population engaged in farming, disclosed that the committee, is expected to design a workable roadmap to boost farming/agro-allied businesses in the state to generate mass employment and proffer a sustainable strategy to boost orderly and integrated development of the rural areas.
On youths and Sports Development, the governor who described the youth as the engine of economic growth, pointed out that Enugu State has sports talents who have won laurels within and outside the shores of the country, stressing that programmes and sponsorship are required to continue discovering and developing these youthful talents.
"The committee on youths and sports development will proffer strategies for achieving this, and for engaging the youth in sports development, character building, entrepreneurship, skills acquisition and participation in good governance", he added.
Emphasizing the need to articulate a sustainable environmental management strategy that will deploy different initiatives to address various ecological issues affecting the state and forestall ecological disasters and environmental crisis, Gov. Ugwuanyi disclosed that the committee on the sector "is expected to dutifully look at the totality of our interaction with terrestrial, aquatic and atmospheric environment for sustainable development, having due regard to biodiversity conservation and ecosystem balance".
The governor further stated that the committee on lands, housing and transport is also expected to undertake a situation analysis of Enugu State's potentials and enviable status as one of the safest states in Nigeria to live in, ranking second in Ease of Doing Business and third in Ease of Starting Business, that has witnessed a growing demand for land, housing and transport.
"To meet these demands, we intend to improve our land administration and management, boost orderly housing development and establish a modern intra-state transport system", the governor revealed.
Appreciating members of the committees for accepting to serve the state, Gov. Ugwuanyi expressed confidence that they will deploy their wealth of experience, expertise and commitment to add value to the governance of Enugu State.
Responding on behalf of other members of the five newly inaugurated committees, the chairman of sustainable environmental and urban management sector, Prof. Smart Uchegbu, thanked the governor for assembling "the cream of professionals" to carry out the all important assignment.
Prof. Uchegbu expressed delight at the pioneering innovation adopted by Gov. Ugwuanyi to improve service delivery and good governance in Enugu State, saying: "I am really overwhelmed that for the first time, we see a dynamic governor joyfully assembling a cream of professionals to work with him, to assist him achieve more of what he has already achieved".
He commended the numerous achievements of the governor towards the rapid development of the state, adding that he was proud that "Enugu State is number one state in the area of security and one of the cleanest and most beautiful states in Nigeria" and firmly in the hands of God.
The committee chairman also expressed satisfaction with the governor's empowerment programmes, especially in the area of job creation, maintaining that the "history of Enugu State can never be said without somebody like you who has always been directed by God Almighty".
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American Royals 2
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The New York Times bestselling series returns! Your favourite royal family are back for another thrilling instalment of gossip, drama and romance . . .
Beatrice Washington now rules America as its first ever queen, but her family are more concerned about rushing through her arranged marriage to a man she barely knows. No one can know that her heart really belongs to her bodyguard - but even their love is under threat.
Meanwhile, Princess Samantha is under more scrutiny than ever before - and she still longs to be with her sister's fiancee. But with no sign of Bea's wedding being called off, she's surprised to find someone else catching her eye.
Nina Gonzalez is also tangled up with someone she never expected to be. She and Ethan are both nursing broken hearts, and it's not long before they find themselves pulled irresistably together.
Luckily for Daphne Deighton, Prince Jeff's grief for his father makes him a prime target for her attentions. She's the closest she's been in years to getting what she wants . . . so why can't she let the idea of her and Ethan go?
As the royal wedding of the century creeps ever closer, will these four young women get what they want - or will their hearts be broken forever?
© Katharine McGee 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Praise for American Royals: An addictive Jilly Cooperesque saga
Katharine McGee is the author of the New York Times bestselling Thousandth Floor series. She studied at Princeton University and has an MBA from Stanford. She's been speculating about American royalty since her undergraduate days, when she wrote a thesis on American "castle envy". Katharine lives with her husband in her hometown of Houston, Texas.
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Cincinnati Bengals suddenly resemble a model franchise
By Steve Wyche
NFL Media reporter
Kingsbury: 'Not sure' if Peterson will attend OTAs
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A.J. Green made the Pro Bowl after topping 1,000 receiving yards in his rookie season for the Cincinnati Bengals.
One of the most interesting developments of the offseason is that there were no interesting developments with the Cincinnati Bengals this offseason -- at least in terms of the usual Bungalisms associated with a team that had long been viewed as a laughingstock.
While the Bengals did take a hit with an injury to first-round draft pick Dre Kirkpatrick -- a fractured knee will likely sideline the talented cornerback for six weeks -- that was the team's first real negative event of the offseason. Based on what the Bengals typically go through, this won't ring a very big alarm bell. They had already protected themselves at the position by adding veteran cornerback Terence Newman, while Leon Hall, who is expected to return to full health after missing the second half of last season with a torn Achilles tendon, can also help.
The Bengals' world rarely revolves on an aligned axis. As they enter training camp, they can only hope this relative normalcy results in a second consecutive winning season, which would mark their first such stretch since 1981-1982 (with the latter being a strike-shortened campaign).
That was also the last stretch that included back-to-back playoff appearances by the Bengals, whose 21-season playoff-win drought is the NFL's longest. The result of such futility is that their forlorn fan base is waiting for something to crush its hopes.
Cincinnati's failure to enjoy sustained success doesn't always seem to be the fault of the Bengals, who finished 9-7 before losing to the Houston Texans in the wild-card round of the playoffs last season. They do, after all, play in a division that includes two perennial powers in the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens.
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Then again, their shortcomings tend to be related more to self-inflicted wounds than anything else. This offseason, however, the police blotter and injury docket have not been riddled with Bengals. Two notable incidents stand out: Kirkpatrick's aforementioned injury and Rey Maualuga's misdemeanor assault charge from February, stemming from an incident in which he allegedly punched someone in a bar.
Compared to what this franchise has been through, these setbacks aren't huge areas of concern. In fact, the feeling around the NFL regarding Cincinnati surrounds the maturation of quarterback Andy Dalton and receiver A.J. Green, as well as the overall talent base, which has been fortified with promising youngsters acquired via the past few drafts.
Coordinator Mike Zimmer's defense ranked among the top 10 in most key categories last season and boasts an emerging stud in tackle Geno Atkins.
The offensive line is once again anchored by Andrew Whitworth, and Cincinnati is stocked at the skill positions. The addition of smart, grinding running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis should ease the transition from Cedric Benson.
An essential step in the development of this promising new nucleus was detachment from the old one: quarterback Carson Palmer, receivers Chad Johnson (née Ochocinco), Terrell Owens, T.J. Houshmandzadeh and Jerome Simpson, and Benson. The drama has subsided with the departures of these players, and all parties (just about) seem better off.
One thing remains to be seen: Will the cycle repeat itself in a year or two, or will the Bengals maintain their positive vibe?
Owner Mike Brown's ways always seem to draw questions -- former cornerback Johnathan Joseph recently ridiculed the team for its rationing of Gatorade -- but he's also actually drawn praise for acing his past two drafts, trading Palmer to the Oakland Raiders in exchange for high-value draft picks and staying away from players of questionable character.
The trap door seems to always be under Cincinnati's feet, so it's too early for anything more than the standard preseason optimism shared by all 32 teams. But still, there are signs that the franchise is actually behaving like one that wants to win. And that is a positive in itself.
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AUA 2018 Northeastern Section
NSAUA 2018: Evaluation and Management of Women with Recurrent Stress Urinary Incontinence
Toronto, Ontario (UroToday.com) The topic of recurrent stress urinary incontinence after initial surgical therapy in women was discussed in this talk by E. Ann Gormley, MD. In recurrent stress urinary incontinence (SUI) the severity of the incontinence occurring following a failed surgery can either be the same or might even be worse. This entity of recurrent SUI after initial failed surgical therapy can be divided into several entities:
1. Persistent (early, never experienced dryness) SUI
2. Recurrent (initial success and then failure) SUI
3. Patient desires additional treatment
4. Persistent deNovo urge
5. Development of a fistula
Another option is that the SUI is treated successfully, but there is a complication which can be manifested as a mesh complication or difficulty with voiding/obstruction.
SSI surgical failure can be defined in a more flexible manner, using the surgeons/patient's assessment of cure on the last follow-up visit, or using the strict definition which includes an objective and subjective component of assessment at a minimum follow-up of 12 months.
According to the American Urologic Association (AUA) guidelines, mid urethral slings (MUS) with the insertion of a mesh, have comparable efficacy to autologous slings (pubovaginal or fascial slings). Usage of MUS entails more rapid recovery and more efficient return to normal voiding. The rare complication of mesh extrusion should be avoided by using intraoperative cystoscopy to examine the bladder and urethra and minimize the risk of urinary tract injury.
Not all the slings are the same, and not all MUS is the same. They all differ in their treatment success rates and complications rates. Contemporary data demonstrate that MUS is the mainstay first line treatment for SUI. MUS can perform either as a retropubic MUS (RMUS) or as a transobturator (TMUS) approach. RMUS has 13.8% failure rate after a follow-up of 94 months. The TMUS has a failure rate of 31-36% at 10 years follow-up.
In The Stress Incontinence Surgical Treatment Efficacy Trial (SISTEr)1, Burch colposuspension (Burch colposuspension (a procedure used to treat urinary incontinence due to pelvic floor relaxation. It entails the attachment of the paravaginal fascia to Cooper's ligament), and autologous rectus fascial sling were analyzed. Between 34-51% of the patients had failed. In the 5-Year Longitudinal Follow-up after Retropubic and Transobturator Midurethral Slings (ToMUS) study2 the failure rate was 20-44%. However, only 48 patients from both trials were retreated.
The risk factors for MUS failure include BMI >25, mixed incontinence, prior SUI surgery, intrinsic sphincter deficiency (ISD), and diabetes.3 Importantly, to evaluate these women:
A complete history needs to be taken - physicians need to understand the onset of SUI, severity, and characterization of symptoms
All historical records need to be reviewed
Complete physical examination needs to be performed - urethral mobility should be assessed; a stress test should be performed, while other vaginal pathology should be assessed. Scars should be noted, and pain, tenderness or numbness associated with a previous sling should be assessed
Urinalysis and culture need to be done0
Post-void residual test
Cystoscopy - performed to discover prior mesh in the urethra and bladder
Urodynamic studies - Should be able to demonstrate the incontinence, mobility and ISD, assess compliance/ capacity of the bladder, and inform us if there is a potential obstruction
According to the AUA guidelines, additional evaluation should be performed when there is a lack in the definitive diagnosis, inability to demonstrate SUI, known Neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction (NLUTD), abnormal urinalysis, elevated post-void residual, high grade pelvic organ prolapse, and urge incontinence predominantly mixed incontinence.4 Additional tests may be performed in patients with concomitant overactive bladder symptoms, failure of prior anti-incontinence surgery, and prior pelvic organ prolapse. An ultrasound examination can also be done to identify the mesh.
It is most important that urologists determine the reason for failure: whether the wrong procedure was performed, wrong material (mesh) used, lacking technical surgical skills, some change that had occurred in the patents; and other miscellaneous reasons. The treatment consists of several options:
Conservative – wait and see approach, usage of various medications
Tightening of a prior sling – for pubovaginal sling this can be done up to 12 weeks following the initially failed procedure. For MUS – it is possible to plicate the mesh with a non-absorbable suture, resulting in cure in 47% of cases
A repeat MUS procedure – whether retropubic or obturator. Some data suggest that a retropubic approach may be superior to an obturator approach in redo procedures. A good candidate is a patient with healthy vaginal mucosa, and a mobile bladder neck and urethra. In a meta-analysis assessing the outcomes of MUS following MUS, the cure rate was 73.3%5. The question of what to do after a second failed MUS remains unanswered.
Fascial (Pubovaginal) sling procedure
Injectable sling –bulking agent
Dr. Gormley continued and discussed the role of fascial (pubovaginal) sling in the age of mesh synthetics. Historically, all patients were candidates for this procedure except those who couldn't comply with the postoperative restrictions, who couldn't perform self-catheterization, obese patients and those with limited vaginal access. It was a popular procedure, especially when it was performed concomitantly with prolapse repairs, augmentation, diverticulectomy, and following mesh removal or reconstruction. According to Dr. Gormley, this is reasonably a straightforward procedure which takes up to two hours, with less than 24 hours of postoperative hospital recovery. It should be offered as part of a comprehensive program, and its use has been increased following the FDA notifications warning about the use of mesh in MUS. The possible complications of this procedure include bleeding, retroperitoneal hematoma (less than 0.5% of cases), urinary retention or obstructed voiding, deNovo urge incontinence (10-20% of cases), urethral erosion (very rare), and wound issues (worse in obese patients). The advantages of this procedure include the fact that it is a simple, successful and durable procedure, using autologous tissue without any mesh, with minimal contraindications or complications.
What will determine what kind of procedure the surgeon will perform in patients who have failed initial SUI surgical treatment includes the patient's expectations, her urethral mobility, urodynamic parameters, whether it is a complex case and the surgeon's preference? Summing all available evidence, it is clear that we currently have minimal data on how to best treat patients following a failed MUS procedure. What we need are randomized controlled trials between retropubic MUS, transobturator MUS and pubovaginal sling.
In conclusion, failure of primary slings occurs in 12-44% of cases. The known predictors of failure include diabetes, obesity, mixed incontinence, ISD, prior surgery, increased age, and increased pad weight. A complete evaluation of these patients is needed, and randomized controlled trials are needed to provide us with clear answers on how to treat these patients in the best way.
Presented by: E. Ann Gormley, MD, Professor of Surgery in Urology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
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2. Kenton K et al. J Urol 2015
3. Stav et al. Int Urogyn J 2010
4. Kobashi K et al. J Urol 2017
5. Pradhan et al. Int Urogyn 2012
Written by: Hanan Goldberg, MD, Urologic Oncology Fellow (SUO), University of Toronto, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, @GoldbergHanan at the 70th Northeastern Section of the American Urological Association (NSAUA) - October 11-13, 2018 - Fairmont Royal York Toronto, ON Canada


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Spring Training Primer: Cashner's smooth debut; Harvey starts again; Hart's battle
By Rich Dubroff
Photo credit: Baltimore Orioles
What's happening? – Dylan Bundy and Mike Wright will face the Pittsburgh Pirates in Bradenton today. Manager Buck Showalter hopes that Bundy and Wright will combine to pitch the entire game.
First baseman Chris Davis had a cortisone shot in his sore right elbow Saturday. Showalter hopes that Davis, who has been out since March 3, will return this week.
"There's no need to rush," Davis said. "There was no point in trying to fight through it and go out there and play and get at-bats just to have to deal with this for the next six or seven months."
Outfielder Mark Trumbo is still out with a sore right quad, but he hopes to play in a few days.
Gabriel Ynoa will be out with shin splints for two-to-four weeks. The right-hander wasn't expected to be a real factor in the fifth-starter competition, but the injury effectively ends his spring training.
Outfielder Austin Hays expects to play the outfield for the first time Tuesday against the Minnesota Twins in Fort Myers, Fla. He was restricted to DH duties in his first four games due to a right shoulder issue.
The roster stands at 48, and Showalter may make a few more cuts today.
What's happened? – Andrew Cashner threw four scoreless innings, allowing one hit in his first Grapefruit League start. Cashner walked three and struck out two. He was the first Orioles starter to pitch four innings in the Orioles' 4-0 win against the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday night.
"I think for me it's more about pitch execution than results," Cashner said. "I mean, the results are always nice. I'm more interested in what I'm executing and when I'm not. There are some things I need to work on, but overall, any time you have zeroes, you can never be mad."
Showalter was happy with Cashner's outing.
"That was about as good as you could have hoped," Showalter said. "He got to use all his pitches, saw a good lineup."
** Hunter Harvey allowed two runs, one unearned, in three innings as the Orioles beat Boston 7-3 in Fort Myers, Fla., in the first half of their split-squad games Sunday.
Five Orioles pitching prospects threw scoreless innings against the Red Sox.
Keegan Akin, a second-round selection in the 2016 draft, threw a perfect fifth.
Akin retired J.D. Martinez on a ground ball, struck out Xander Bogaerts and retired Rafael Devers on a comebacker.
** The Orioles have signed their 28 pre-arbitration eligible players to one-year contracts, including Bundy, Wright, Richard Bleier, Mychal Givens and Trey Mancini. These are basically procedural moves.
What's up with? – Donnie Hart. In five innings this spring, the left-hander has allowed two runs on six hits.
Hart is jockeying for a spot on the team with two non-roster left-handers, Josh Edgin and Joely Rodriguez, who have combined to throw 8 1/3 scoreless innings.
"Every time you go out there, you're trying to make the team," Hart said. "I did the same thing last year. Nothing's guaranteed if you have options."
Hart began his Orioles career strongly in late 2016, when he was recalled from Double-A Bowie, but had a rockier 2017 that included two trips to Triple-A.
What's what? – The Orioles' under-the-radar pitcher of the spring is James Teague, who was a 37th round pick in the 2016 draft. Teague pitched a snappy 1-2-3 ninth and has now thrown 4 1/3 scoreless innings. He's given up just one hit, struck out four and hasn't walked any.
What's the word? – "They're gone. They don't exist much anymore and when those (current) guys leave there won't be guys to replace them. It's not a skill set that's easily found." – Buck Showalter on the difficulty of finding a reliable leadoff hitter.
What's the number? – 5. That's how many catchers who've homered this spring for the Orioles. Caleb Joseph, who's been productive, hit a two-run home run in the fifth inning Sunday.
He joins Audry Perez, Chance Sisco, Andrew Susac and Austin Wynns, who each homered in previous games.
What's the record? — 9-8-1. It's the first time this spring the Orioles have been above .500. They play Pittsburgh at LECOM Field in Bradenton, Fla., at 1:05 p.m. today.
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A winning record? Grapefruit or not, this is encouraging.
Reports of some of our pitchers actually experiencing success? How can this be? I tell ya' …THIS is the kind of reporting I love to read about the team. Cashner, Akin, Edgin, Rodriguez and JAMES TEAGUE?!!? Who are these guys not named Ubaldo? Dan … I'm getting jazzed for the start of the seaon. I'm almost ready to break out the bag-o-blind-optimism!!
Go Os!!
You will break it out. And I will smile as you cheerlead. Opening Day is around the corner.
deqalt
We have gotten so accustomed to making excuses and talk potential about starting pitching. It's refreshing to just say Cashner pitched 4 clean innings and looked good. No need for excuses. Orioles need another professional pitcher or this team will not compete. The Twins just made that 2nd wild card harder. They are a low market team yet we can't add a big time pitcher as well. Something not adding up. Are we back to confederate money or ownership not committed?
To me it is the same old. When given equal options, pitchers don't choose Camden Yards and the AL East. Safer ways to make major money.
Paul Folkemer
The Orioles should make sure the options aren't equal, then. There's no reason they couldn't have easily topped a one-year, $12 million offer to Lynn. Make him turn down a three-year deal in the $30-$36 million range.
If the Orioles are going to claim to be competing in 2018, signing a legitimate starter for far less than Ubaldo money is a deal they have to make.
You raised the key question – "if the Orioles claim to be competing in 2018." And there's not much evidence that they are really serious about competing, except perhaps competing with Tampa for 4th place.
Between the departures of J.J., Ubaldo, and Miley, and Tillman's pay cut, the Orioles cleared about $40 million in salaries. So what have they reinvested to upgrade the team? – Signed Cashner to an $8 million per year contract. That's it. Pretty much answers the question whether the Orioles are serious about competing.
Plenty of encouraging signs–young pitchers,young OFers, deep catching,no Trumbo/Davis(only kidding). My concerns are as follows–Tillman's lack of progress,no position for Mountcastle(mandatory that they find one),Sisco's defensive deficiencies,AND why would Lynn take a one year deal when O's supposedly had a 2-3 year offer out there. Dan did the O's pull that offer?
I'm not sure Orioles ever made a concrete offer to Lynn. Or to any of the major FA pitchers. And I wouldn't call Tillman's situation a lack of progress. It might be ultimately. But the slow play is not a concern at this moment.
We gotta consider that maybe guys don't want to come here. Just because a FA pitcher doesn't come here doesn't necessarily mean Dan Duquette needs tarred and feathered. Minnesota is coming of a playoff appearance, their organization seems more stable, a pitcher has Byron Buxton behind him in center, and they don't have Judge, Stanton, Betts Donaldson etc showing up every couple weeks.
I've written it for years. The only way you get free agent pitching to Baltimore is to grossly overpay.
Dpsmith22
I believe Cashner will be far better than the pundits and advanced stats say. Not to say he will put us into the playoffs by any means. I still see a 75 win team here.
So many bad moves this spring. Might be Duquette's worst, which is saying something considering he was so bad in 15′, he truly should have been fired.
I saw 2 games in Florida and certainly saw no issues with Sisco defensively. I saw him throw out 2 base stealers and make a nice play on a bad throw from Jones at the plate.
IF the O's were not happy with Sisco as a catcher, he should have been dealt. Its not like we have room for him in any other position, that could possibly play. Again, this shows a total lack of foresight.
Sisco is 23 years old. He's been playing catcher for 5 years. He's developing behind the plate. Just because he's not major league ready defensively at baseball's toughest position at this exact moment is no cause for change. This isn't lack of foresight. It's baseball.
Ordinarily I would agree.
However, the O's had no pitching and Sisco was someone that had trade value. At the point we were in, (still are) the rotation is garbage. They needed to utilize and and all options, IMO, he was one of them.
I don't think you trade a 23-yo catcher for pitching. Unless you get a similarly young upside pitcher and no one would do that since pitching is ultimately more valuable.
Homerago
While we are looking for some resolutions to strengthen our pitching, it appears that the O's have found two additional run producers to pick up where Davis and Trumbo excelled a couple of years ago. The foursome of Manny, Schoop, Mancini and Santander could garner 360 rbi's this season. Ain't going to happen though, because Davis and Trumbo will play full-time for half of the season, regardless of their ineptitude last year.


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The Geography of Twitter
A few months ago, Antonello Romano and I published some maps of Twitter. Those maps showed which parts of the world produced more content than others. However, what they failed to do is account for differences in Internet penetration around the world.
The above map normalises the Twitter data by internet population data: revealing the parts of the world that are home to internet users who are more likely to publish content on the platform.
You can see that the differences between places are not slight ones. Internet users in some countries (like Malaysia) are dozens of times more likely to tweet than internet users in places like India or Kenya.
As in painfully obvious in 2017, information in social media streams can have an outsized influence. Knowledge shared on Twitter can shape how people around understand society, the economy, and politics. But, as we see here, that knowledge has distinct geographies. It is far more likely to be created in some places than others.
Graham, M, S. Hale, and D. Gaffney. 2014. Where in the World are You? Geolocation and Language Identification in Twitter. The Professional Geographer 66(4) 568-578. (pre-publication version here)
Graham, M., De Sabbata, S., Zook, M. 2015. Towards a study of information geographies:(im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information Geo: Geography and Environment.2(1) 88-105. doi:10.1002/geo2.8
Graham, M. 2015. Information Geographies and Geographies of Information New Geographies 7 159-166.
Graham, M., S. Hale & M. Stephens. 2011. Geographies of the World's Knowledge. Convoco! Edition.
infogeog, oiiMark Graham February 3, 2017 oii, twitter, map
Mapping Twitter
I've been working with Antonello Romano to update some of our older research into the geography of Twitter.
Below you can see some maps from a sample of about 2.5 million tweets collected worldwide over 48 hours in October 2016. These are collected using the Twitter streaming API (at most a 1% sample).
Because of the nature of the data, I wouldn't read too much into any specific differences. But what these maps broadly achieve is that they give us a sense of the digital cores and peripheries of our world.
The two 'world at night' style maps give a sense of which parts of the world light up the internet with content, and which parts are still relatively left in the dark. The choropleth map (the one in which countries are shaded) then gives us a sense of which countries produce the bulk of content. The US (25%) and Brazil (14%) together produce more than a third of the world's content.
Other parts of the world produce only a tiny amount of content in comparison. In all of Africa combined (2.7% of the world's total), there are is less content produced than in Turkey (4%) or Spain (3%).
We live in a world in which almost half of humanity is connected to the internet. And almost anyone, anywhere, in any position of power is connected. This means that information in social media streams (like Twitter) can have an outsized influence. Knowledge shared on Twitter can shape how people around understand society, the economy, and politics. But, as we see here, that knowledge has distinct geographies. Let's remember that even in 2016, this is anything but a truly global network.
geonet, infogeog, digital economiesMark Graham December 3, 2016 oii, internet geography, twitter
Reposted from our work over at Floatingsheep…
The past weeks have been quite eventful in Scotland as a monumental election unfolds. Everyone wants to know, which way will the Scots vote? While we here at Floatingsheep certainly don't have the answer or power to predict the referendum, we thought it might be interesting to see the geographic dimension of how Scots (and the rest of the world) are tweeting about a fundamentally geographic decision [1].
We started by comparing the prevalence of 'no' (i.e., pro-union) hashtags versus 'yes' (i.e., pro-independence) hashtags the global level. In the map below, orange indicates a greater prevalence of 'yes' tweets and purple indicates that there are more 'no' tweets. Perhaps the most interesting thing here is that we can see the United Kingdom swing towards a 'yes' vote, which has, for the most part, appeared to be the underdog in more conventional polling leading up to the referendum. Then again, most of Western Europe, along with Thailand and Australia, also have a general preference for 'yes' tweets. Oddly enough, the United States is the staunchest defender of the union, based solely on it's massive preference for 'no' tweets. Strange for a country that yearly celebrates its breaking away from Mother England
Comparing 'Yes' vs. 'No' Tweets at the Global Scale
Looking closer at the UK, we can see that much of Scotland has a roughly equal number of tweets in support of both the 'yes' and 'no' positions – reflecting the contentious and hotly-contested nature of this referendum. But the Central Belt in particular – where a lot of actual votes will be coming from, as it is the most densely populated part of the nation – swings heavily towards 'yes'. The English, on the other hand, seem very much inclined towards pro-union or anti-separation tweeting.
Comparing 'Yes' vs. 'No' Tweets in the United Kingdom
To take an alternative look at support for the different positions, we mapped the percentage of each of the three hashtags that originates in each of the administrative sub-regions of both Scotland and the UK as a whole. The Highlands and parts of the Central Belt again show up as strong bastions of 'yes' votes.
But seeing as we're interested in doing more than just mapping distributions, the next question is how are we to put all of this into context? The only proper place to start is, of course, with the Queen. The map below illustrates those places which also tend to have higher-than-normal levels of tweeting about the Queen (in orange) and those places that are tweeting less about the Queen than might usually be expected (in purple), based on a baseline measure of tweeting activity. Sadly, the whole country seems to be ignoring her. Apart from Glasgow, that is. In the interests of not upsetting an 88 year-old lady, we have chosen not to explore these tweets in any more detail.
Tweets referencing "Queen"
Building on this, we also explored the geography of references (using the same method described above) to something inherent in most people's definitions of Britishness: tea and crumpets
We see an all-around tea-depression; hardly anywhere is particularly pro-tea at the moment, truly a shocking state of affairs. The British are clearly not being their usual selves, and for their sake we're glad the referendum will be over soon, regardless of the outcome. Scotland, in particular, has average tea counts that are low by historical standards.
Tweets referencing "tea and crumpets"
Tweets referencing "haggis", "kilts" or "Nessie"
The Scots are tweeting about these topics at a greater-than-usual rate, while their southern neighbors remain distinctly uninterested. If ever there were an indication that these nations are divided by more than just a line on a map, we see that manifested in the topic of people's Twitter conversations. In short, the Scottish referendum is not just simply about "yes" or "no" but seemingly touches on much more fundamental questions of ovis-based cuisine, men's wear and mythological creatures.
So even if the 'no' votes win out in and the Kingdom remains united, the geographies of haggis related tweeting (along with a few other things) has revealed that these are two very different nations, indeed.
[1] In case you don't know what Twitter, is we refer you to the Scots Wikipedia page on the subject, which states: "Twitter is an online social networkin service an microbloggin service that enables its uisers tae send an read text-based messages o up tae 140 characters, kent as 'tweets'".
[2] Perhaps we could have simplified this phrasing, but then we would have lost the chance to type "anti-pro-independence", which is a lot of fun. Anti-pro-independence. Anti-pro-independence.
Mark Graham September 18, 2014 twitter, scotland, oii, mapping, internet geography, information geography, geographies of knowledge, electionComment
New paper: Where in the World are You? Geolocation and Language Identification in Twitter
Scott Hale, Devin Gaffney and I have a forthcoming paper in The Professional Geographer on the geography of Twitter.
The abstract is below, and you can download the pre-publication version from the link at the end of this post.
The movements of ideas and content between locations and languages are unquestionably crucial concerns to researchers of the information age, and Twitter has emerged as a central, global platform on which hundreds of millions of people share knowledge and information. A variety of research has attempted to harvest locational and linguistic metadata from tweets in order to understand important questions related to the 300 million tweets that flow through the platform each day. However, much of this work is carried out with only limited understandings of how best to work with the spatial and linguistic contexts in which the information was produced. Furthermore, standard, well-accepted practices have yet to emerge. As such, this paper studies the reliability of key methods used to determine language and location of content in Twitter. It compares three automated language identification algorithms to Twitter's user language interface setting and to a human coding of languages, and identifies common sources of disagreement. The paper also demonstrates that in many cases user-entered profile locations differ from the physical locations users are actually tweeting from. As such, these open-ended, and user-generated, profile locations cannot be used as useful proxies for the physical locations from which information is published to Twitter.
Graham, M, S. Hale, and D. Gaffney. 2013. Where in the World are You? Geolocation and Language Identification in Twitter. The Professional Geographer (in press).
Mark Graham June 12, 2013 twitter, knowledge, internet geography, geography, geographies of knowledgeComment


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Q: How to edit files in a docker container when you don't have any text editor and you're not root? I'm stuck at the login screen of Jenkins because I don't remember the username and the password to log in. I read in this article https://www.serverlab.ca/tutorials/linux/administration-linux/how-to-reset-jenkins-admin-users-password/ that it is possible to solve this problem by editing the config.xml file.
But my problem is I don't have any text editor (vi, nano, emacs) and I can't install one with apt because I'm not root.
Anyone knows how to solve this issue ?
Thx !

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Cheap Chinese basketball players fall apart after a couple of years
HOUSTON—Reports from several NBA teams indicate that cheap, flimsy Chinese basketball players frequently break down and fall apart when faced with the normal wear-and-tear of an NBA season. "We got one a couple years ago, but the foot broke," said Rockets GM Carroll Dawson about Chinese center Yao Ming. "Now it just sits there. We don't even use it anymore."
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US' only toy tester retires
In the midst of last year's toy recalls, Hundemer, an engineering technician with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, became known as the nation's sole full-time toy tester, referred to in speeches and news accounts only by his first name, "Bob."
Hundemer decided that, at age 61, it was time to move on. He leaves behind an agency less than half the size it was when he started in 1980 and a testing facility in Gaithersburg that once was spacious but now is cramped and run down, infested with rodents and plagued by rotted window frames.
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Hillary Clinton: scaremongering in the best GOP tradition
Bob Ceska:
When I wrote my endorsement of Senator Obama last month, I noted Senator Clinton's penchant for being a little too Cheney-ish to receive my primary season support. This week, she proved me accurate when she made with the Cheney-ish fearmongering just in time to scare the White-Mountain-sized-cockadoody out of New Hampshire voters.
"I don't think it was by accident that al-Qaeda decided to test the new prime minister. They watch our elections as closely as we do, maybe more closely than some of our fellows citizens do. Let's not forget you're hiring a president not just to do what a candidate says during the election, you want a president to be there when the chips are down."
In other words, the terrorists will surely attack us if a "less experienced" president is elected. So vote for Senator Obama if you want the evildoers to kill us all.
We've heard this line before:
"If we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again — that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States." -Vice President Dick Cheney, 9/07/04
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Lead testing shows MANY toys may be toxic; check the list.
Americans need protection, not crazy counter-productive bankrupting wars.
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….interest was high at the square where, adjacent to the Christmas tree, the San Francisco Department of the Environment and the Center for Environmental Health tested toys that people brought with them – some of them a dozen or more, others with only one.
"It's a huge discussion among parents," said Lasden, a San Francisco public school teacher on a sabbatical. "My father e-mails me every other day, telling me to get rid of this or that."
The toy examination – testers are looking for lead, arsenic, cadmium or other toxic compounds – will be repeated Tuesday and next Thursday at the Department of the Environment, 11 Grove St., from 10 a.m. to noon.
As the free testing was under way at Union Square, a Michigan nonprofit group, the Ecology Center, announced that it, along with other groups around the country, had tested 1,268 toys and found that 35 percent contain lead, which can lead to irreversible damage to the developmental and nervous systems in children.
The results and more information are posted on a Web site, www.healthytoys.org, which was overwhelmed by visitors on Wednesday.
"The government is not testing for toxic chemicals in toys, and too many manufacturers are not self-regulating, so we created the nation's first toy database to help inform and empower consumers," said Tracey Easthope, director of the center's Environmental Health Project, in Ann Arbor.
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Chuck Norris: litmus test for Americans
Here's a Chuck Norris fact you may not know. If Chuck Norris endorses you and appears in one of your campaign's TV ads, you take the lead in an Iowa poll and your Web server crashes. That's what happened to Mike Huckabee, the shrewder-than-you-realize former Arkansas governor (sound familiar?) who has become a major player in the tight Republican presidential race. The ad opens with Huckabee deadpanning: "My plan to secure the border? Two words: Chuck Norris." The camera moves back to reveal the Man Himself, who praises Huckabee as a solid, gun-loving, IRS-loathing conservative. Huckabee adds a twist at the end. "I approved this message … So did Chuck." The ad, which ran in Iowa on cable for a week, has generated an astonishing 1.5 million YouTube views and clogged the campaign's Web site. Huckabee was rising in Iowa even before the ad, but he took the lead with Chuck as Huckster.
Yes, Chuck Norris, a coveted endorsement for GOP candidates. Perfect. I think that pretty much sums it up. Americans could just choose sides based on whether or not they see Chuck Norris as a guiding light.
Of course, Mike Huckabee doesn't believe in evolution. Not to say that Chuck Norris hasn't evolved as much as the rest of us……
This is the kind of shit you get when you cede the country to a bunch of profiteers who are all about trying to sell you fear, cheap TV shows and toxic shit from China while they work on the real business of grabbing your pension.
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More toxic toys from China: our government sucks
Our taxes are supposed to be used to do things for us; to protect us from toxic products, for example. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission might as well not even exist any more. State governments are having to pick up the pieces, with little in the way of resources.
More than 500,000 pieces of children's jewelry are being recalled for excessive levels of lead paint after a dozen retailers, including Michaels Stores, Big Lots and Family Dollar Stores, agreed to a settlement with the New York state Attorney General's Office, federal and state officials said Wednesday.
Michaels does not have to pay a fine, through some of the others retailers will, including Big Lots, which agreed to pay a $1,000 penalty under the settlement.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recall includes 29 jewelry items, including a total of 200,000 pieces sold at 950 Michaels Stores. The items, such as butterfly charms and toggle bracelets, were supplied by Pure Allure in Oceanside, Calif.
Despite recent recalls of millions of hazardous and lead-contaminated children's jewelry and toys, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and national consumer groups urge parents to be diligent over the holiday season because unsafe items remain on store shelves. Lead can be toxic and can cause developmental problems in children.
Bush and GOP congress spent record amounts of money, there have been record deficits, the national debt is ballooning, people are wondering about Social Security…. yet we get no meaningful service from our government.
Where did the money go?
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Herbal male enhancement products are often unregulated Viagra or similar
Somehow I have seen these ads and just assumed they were scams; but if that were the case, why would they stay on the air? Now, it seems, they do work, in some sense; many contain Viagra -like drugs, and the doses may be dangerous to some:
For men on common heart and blood-pressure drugs, popping one could lead to a stroke, or even death.
"All-natural" products with names like Stamina-RX and Vigor-25 promise an apothecary's delight of rare Asian ingredients, but many work because they contain unregulated versions of the very pharmaceuticals they are supposed to replace.
That dirty secret represents a special danger for the millions of men who take nitrates – drugs prescribed to lower blood pressure and regulate heart disease. When mixed, nitrates and impotency pharmaceuticals can slow blood flow catastrophically, leading to a heart attack or stroke.
An Associated Press investigation shows that spiked herbal impotency pills are emerging as a major public health concern that officials haven't figured out how to track, much less tame.
Emergency rooms and poison control hot lines are starting to log more incidents of the long-ignored phenomenon. Sales of "natural sexual enhancers" are booming – rising to nearly $400 million last year. And dangerous knockoffs abound.
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Q: Which statistical test is appropriate for determining whether there is a significant difference in the exam scores of 2 groups(abnormal distrib)? Male exam scores
58
54
61
64
60
60
45
44
53
54
32
56
43
69
69
72
66
45
63
49
48
53
Female exam scores
71
55
42
49
57
51
51
60
60
60
51
43
41
24
43
48
57
79
73
53
53
64
54
59
73
47

A: The Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon test is the simple nonparametric alternative to an independent samples t-test. Here's code and output in r:
male=c(58,54,61,64,60,60,45,44,53,54,32,56,43,69,69,72,66,45,63,49,48,53)
female=c(71,55,42,49,57,51,51,60,60,60,51,43,41,24,43,48,57,79,73,53,53,64,54,59,73,47)
wilcox.test(c(male,female)~rep(0:1,c(22,26)))

    Wilcoxon rank sum test with continuity correction

data:  c(male, female) by rep(0:1, c(22, 26))
W = 308.5, p-value = 0.6485
alternative hypothesis: true location shift is not equal to 0

Reversing the ordering of groups produces W = 263.5, but the same, insignificant p value. Following @Glen_b's point, a t-test gives a similar result (t.test(c(male,female)~rep(0:1,c(22,26)))):
    Welch Two Sample t-test

data:  c(male, female) by rep(0:1, c(22, 26))
t = 0.2615, df = 45.992, p-value = 0.7948
alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
95 percent confidence interval:
 -5.525451  7.175801
sample estimates:
mean in group 0 mean in group 1
       55.36364        54.53846